On 21 September 2022, in Kiev, Ukraine, the Council of Europe presented the Recommendation on protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls to representatives of Ukrainian central government institutions and agencies, the Office of the Government Commissioner on Gender Equality Policy, regional government bodies, Ukrainian civil society organisations and international organisations.

The Recommendation was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 20 May 2022 and in now available also in Ukrainian.  

Translations of both the Recommendation as well as a study on Gender-based asylum claims and non-refoulement: Articles 60 and 61 of the Istanbul Convention into Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak and Spanish are available on the website of the Council of Europe project “Combatting violence against women in Ukraine (COVAW)”.